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Leon Prochnik holds a photo of himself as a 6-year-old child in Krakow, Poland, at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Leon had just spoken to students from Fillmore High School and Fillmore Middle School about how his family fled when the Nazis invaded.

Leon Prochnik holds a photo of himself as a 6-year-old child in Krakow, Poland, at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Leon had just spoken to students from Fillmore High School and Fillmore Middle School about how his family fled when the Nazis invaded. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Leon Prochnik holds a photo of himself as a 6-year-old child in Krakow, Poland, at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Leon had just spoken to students from Fillmore High School and Fillmore Middle School about how his family fled when the Nazis invaded.Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times